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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

Percona

Initial release

1994

2007

2015

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

14.1, August 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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